Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenes were a kind of visual metaphor for Reagan's foreign policy these days: placidity and fellowship front and center, tension and turmoil in the background. The trip to Ireland opened a ten-day tour filled with the kind of ceremony-visits to castles, palaces and battlefields-at which the President excels...
These spectacular confrontations are well handled by Director Reitman, who always finds the time for the funny aside, the wittily telling detail. He and the visual-effects director, Richard Edlund, also have the sense to let the special effects look just a little tacky, so they provide a comic comment on all the ghoulie-ghostie movies we have been asked to suspend disbelief for in recent years. Whoever thought of having evil's final manifestation take the form of a 100-ft. marshmallow deserves the rational mind's eternal gratitude. But praise is due to everyone connected with...
...which the tremendous graphic achievements of a Degas or a Matisse could rise. Such amateur experience added up to a general recognition that to draw, to reconstitute a motif as a code of lines and tonal patches, is to think, and that such thought forms the root of all visual literacy. A stroll in SoHo today, by contrast, will furnish any number of artists who can barely trace, let alone draw...
...these "parties" that Schultes first sampled yaje, a narcotic which produces visual hallucinations. He also tried coca, from which cocaine is extracted, by chewing the toasted and powdered leaves of the plant...
...many students, college lab work is just a prelude to similar career pursuits. David Perkel '84 has spent much of the last two-and-one-half semesters, including last summer, studying the brain's visual processes at the Medical School's Neurobiology Department...